# Chris Kitze

> Chris Kitze is a seed investor at FLASHcoin Community (San Francisco) backing Social and Travel. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FLASHcoin Community](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flashcoin-community)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriskitze
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chriskitze

Chris Kitze is a seed investor at FLASHcoin Community in San Francisco focused on Social and Travel. Chris Kitze is the Community Member at FLASHcoin Community.He attended University of Colorado Boulder.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social | 1 | 50% |
| Travel | 1 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Safe Cash | Safe Cash makes cash more secure, convenient, and profitable for banks, merchants, and consumers. Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 29, 2015 |  |
| Yaga, Inc. | Yaga, Inc. (www.yaga.com) provides an advanced, hosted ASP platform that addresses emerging revenue and payment infrastructure needs of online businesses. Yaga's sophisticated payment and accounting application supports micropayments, aggregated billing and stored value accounts while also managing royalty and affiliate accounting. In additionYaga provides advanced services such as digital rights management (DRM) and content access control to help manage, sell and merchandize digital content, goods and services. | $15.2M | Series B | Jun 12, 2001 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bialla Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bialla-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FLASHcoin Community

VC Fund



1 contacts available at FLASHcoin Community.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Kitze | Community Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kitze |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Kitze invest in?

Chris Kitze invests primarily in Social, Travel and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Chris Kitze last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Kitze closed in Sep 2015. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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